Projects on conflict management

New conflict management techniques have been developed over the past thirty years. They have great potential to reduce the costs of conflict; but making daily practice live up to that potential is not easy. In particular, underlying systems and structures of conflict regularly defeat well-meaning efforts.

We often find that the underlying structures have not been examined closely, let alone addressed in a sophisticated way. That's partly because such system-level work often demands skills and knowledge that no one individual has. It takes a team. Such a team may need very different kinds of people, so it probably needs a manager who has done this before, and successfully.

We have a track record of dealing with these conditions in a very practical way. This "R&D" work has focused on eight major areas: